I've been playing City of Heroes on an iMac and a MacBook Pro since Boot Camp was in beta, and it's worked great.
You need an Intel based Mac running Leopard (OS X 10.5). Boot Camp is included with the OS. Windows is not, so you'll need your own CD, which must be XP
Service Pack 2 or newer.
The Boot Camp Assistant is in the Utilities folder (which is in Applications). It will walk you through the process printing the instructions (if you want),
burning a CD containing the Apple hardware drivers and software for Windows, and partitioning the HD. Once that's done, you stick the Windows CD in and
boot from it. From there, it's a standard, native Windows install and patch, followed by installing the Apple drivers from the CD you burned. Install City
of Heroes and you're ready to play. You can change the default boot partition from either OS, or select one on the fly by holding down the Option key
during startup.
I haven't tried the most recent versions of Parallels, VMware Fusion, WINE or the like. Last time I did try them, they were getting close, but didn't
quite work, but Direct X support has been improving. I also haven't tried Vista with Boot Camp yet, but it's supposed to run fine (or even faster than
XP) if you have enough RAM.
You need an Intel based Mac running Leopard (OS X 10.5). Boot Camp is included with the OS. Windows is not, so you'll need your own CD, which must be XP
Service Pack 2 or newer.
The Boot Camp Assistant is in the Utilities folder (which is in Applications). It will walk you through the process printing the instructions (if you want),
burning a CD containing the Apple hardware drivers and software for Windows, and partitioning the HD. Once that's done, you stick the Windows CD in and
boot from it. From there, it's a standard, native Windows install and patch, followed by installing the Apple drivers from the CD you burned. Install City
of Heroes and you're ready to play. You can change the default boot partition from either OS, or select one on the fly by holding down the Option key
during startup.
I haven't tried the most recent versions of Parallels, VMware Fusion, WINE or the like. Last time I did try them, they were getting close, but didn't
quite work, but Direct X support has been improving. I also haven't tried Vista with Boot Camp yet, but it's supposed to run fine (or even faster than
XP) if you have enough RAM.